todd grecoportland, or, usa
let me say that this is wicked hard to do... finding 10 albums that i always come back to means that quite a few newer ones didn't make the cut -- simply because they haven't been subjected to the ravages of time. ask me again in 10 years, and i hope that this list will be quite different.

(and i say this while i have "railroad" by pariah on repeat in my headphones, which was one of my faves from last year).